Five Indianapolis officers charged with misusing Flock cameras
Police officers face misconduct and fraud charges for unauthorized use of automated license plate reader technology.
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What to know
- Five Indianapolis police officers charged with official misconduct and fraud for unauthorized use of Flock automated license plate reader cameras
- One officer also faces stalking charges related to the misuse
- The case highlights law enforcement abuse of surveillance technology access
“The five were all charged with official misconduct and fraud, with one facing additional stalking charges.”
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first by ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos, 4d ago · also NewsNation, Washington Examiner, CBS News, Yahoo, PennLive, The Oregonian +2
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- Five Indianapolis Cops Charged With Misusing Flock Cameras, Including One Case of Stalking Mastodon · 3d ago
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Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month:
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A prosecutor files cases against five Indianapolis Police officers for abusing the Flock surveillance network. "The allegation is that the officers were searching or running the license plate information and tracking individuals through the Flock system. Very often times they had direct relationships with these individuals," Marion County…
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One of the cops, an 18-year veteran, ran Flock searches on women he met out in public, then showed up whereever they were to try to do meet-cutes: their gym, a Walmart, a Smoothie King. Said to one woman that "he spilt yogurt on his pants and told her, 'You know what that looks like.'"
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first by IndyStar, 4d ago · also WTHR, Fox 59
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I wonder what the crimes solved vs crimes committed ratio is with this system... https:// gizmodo.com/five-indianapolis- cops-charged-with-misusing-flock-cameras-including-one-case-of-stalking-2000816822
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Five Indianapolis officers were just charged following The Post’s reporting on Flock misuse. Our count of police officers & employees accused of abusing license-plate readers is now at 100 (and counting) Free to read:
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93.1 WIBC (Indianapolis): 5 IMPD Officers Charged with Misusing Flock Cameras One former and four current Indianapolis police officers have been charged with fraud and official misconduct. "...“These individuals’ actions went far beyond a clerical error or a violation of department policy,” Chief Terry said on Wednesday. “These actions crossed…
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I had a cop from New England leave a comment on my YouTube video the other day saying that people need to stop resisting Flock because we have nothing to worry about if we are not criminals. He said that no one cared for 9yrs, so why now... as if they told us all what they were doing.
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Used exactly as designed by its target audience
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zero fuckin surprise here, but thanks to y'all for doing the reporting to get these creeps prosecuted. unfortunately, we'll never catch 'em all -- the abuse isn't worth any trade off for "safety" -- not at all
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Holy shit. Spying on your ex-wife is already a massive loser thing to do. Spying on your current wife's *ex-husband* puts you in the running for king loser, biggest loser currently alive.
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I would be scared of the second cop also
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I worked in a transit EOC with police dispatch and if you weren't trained on police dispatch, you could not access driver information, very simple. Why aren't the same restrictions applied to flock data, where only certain trained and management level can evaluate it?
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There's a spotlight on Flock, as there should be. But there are more companies than just them, Axon, Motorola, Rekor, etc. They should all be under scrutiny, every last one
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What woman wouldn't be dazzled by that pickup line?
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No surprise these tools would have to abuse Flock to meet women.
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I should not be surprised that men who pick up women via Flock camera have absolutely NO game, but jfc that line is so cringe
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what boggles is that this is a known issue with database access. every tech company has uncovered stalkers, every law enforcement agency from local up to the CIA. the fact Flock was deployed with no guardrails & no auditing & no policies & that reporters had to dig through the data is appalling.
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like most surveillance & swat-military tech for law enforcement, the vendors put on flashy conferences with success testimonials, immersive videos of raids, tutorials on all the features & work-arounds & absolutely no cautionary content. while these cops behaved badly they were beyond enabled.
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Wonder who those cops pissed off to get caught while the others I am sure are also abusing the system were ignored
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Its not the most important thing going on here, but every now and then I find myself amazed all over again at just how stupid some of these people are
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I wish I had game like that yogurt playah
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I know a woman who was dating a cop and she was visited by another cop warning her against dating him. The warning turned out to be 100% correct.
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Accountability for abuse of privilege is very inspiring.
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Maybe giving random cops control over the panopticon is a bad idea.